Sentence examples for fatal malady from inspiring English sources

But alas, sometimes even the most talented hands are confronted by a frock or sock suffering from a fatal malady.

If divers ascend too quickly, the drop in pressure causes nitrogen dissolved in their blood and body tissues to form bubbles, and they suffer the potentially fatal malady known as decompression sickness, or the bends.

It is believed that all the victims contracted the disease from eating meat from cattle infected with mad cow disease, a uniformly fatal malady that slowly destroys brain tissue.

Refusing To Die 04.16.01 Told she had Lou Gehrig's disease, Jenifer Estess cursed the lack of research aimed at curing the fatal malady and turned to several stem-cell researchers.

She invents a ritual called vendetta, a complicated series of honor killings, described as "a fatal malady of the blood that slowly, inevitably destroys whole clans, whole families, whole villages," which seems consistent with Brontë's idea that pride and vengeance can destroy generations' worth of families.

Human infection with T. cruz i, a vector-borne protozoan parasite, is the cause of Chagas disease, which is a potentially fatal malady endemic to much of Latin America.

(Although Goya was deafened by a near-fatal malady that struck in 1792, the house already bore this name when he bought it).

Modern medicine has increased longevity and alleviated some non-fatal maladies.

For the modern age, it is Vincent himself who embodies that fatal creative malady.

Then came mad cow disease, a fatal degenerative malady a form of which can be contracted by humans who eat meat from an infected cow.

Two patients with forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, one of which was contracted from eating infected beef, have been treated at a San Francisco hospital with an obsolete malaria drug that doctors hope will alleviate the fatal brain malady.